“Connection can be felt before it is understood...”
Reflection
Some songs remind us that meaning does not always need translation before it can be felt.
“Te Piringa” is a reminder that connection is deeper than the words we use to describe it. There are moments when a song reaches us before we fully understand its language. Something in the sound carries the prayer. The call to return.
Connection can feel like a glimpse of something larger than the self. When it is present, we feel held by more than what we can see. When it is lost, we feel the gap it leaves behind. An ache. A distance. A longing to be called back into what once made us feel whole.
Music can be that bridge. It allows us to feel beyond what we can explain. It gives shape to what is real before it becomes clear. It lets us experience the thread between grief and love, absence and presence, the seen and the unseen.
Not every connection can be held forever. But sometimes a song can keep the thread alive long enough for us to feel it again.